Word Meanings - DISENCOURAGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Discouragement. Spectator.

SPECTATORSHIP
1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
DISCOURAGEMENT
1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
SPECTATOR
One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." Shak. Syn. -- Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.
SPECTATORIAL
Of or pertaining to a spectator. Addison.